On 2023-01-28, Arelor <PALANT!Arelor@vert.synchro.net> wrote:
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> Re: How far I've come...
> By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Thu Jan 26 2023 08:47 pm
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> > I don't think we're at the point where china makes cheap junk.
>
> Pretty much this.
>
> China used to be the laughting stock of the world, selling cheap junk which wa
s
> good for barely anything. They aren't anymore.
>
> So many foreigner countries helped the Chinesse build their industry to produc
e
> merchandise up to European and American standards that at some point they
> realized they could use that infrastructure and experience to produce it
> themselves. If an European clock manufacturer funds a clock factory in china,
> and sends an European foreman to oversee the production of watches, you will
> find that factory produces watches under a Chinesse brand when the foreman is
> not looking, using European standards and the toolchains the Europeans bought
> for them. It happens in Morocco all the time too.
>
> A contruction engineer I know used to warn us in the early 2010s. "Chinesse
> construction steel is no longer total junk. They are starting to show up with
> quality stuff."
>
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Japan was like that in the 60-70's. Cheap copies everywhere, and in the 80's
they managed to surpass the West in a lot of places.
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